BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday insisted that he would defend the Jewish settlement enterprise on the ancient Jewish lands of Judea and Samaria, but a day later he was expected to fire any cabinet ministers that backed a bill that would actually protect such communities. Speaking to Likud…
DetailsBY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7 Kazimierz Smolen, a 91-year-old Auschwitz survivor who after World War II became director of the memorial site, died Friday, The Associated Press reported. Smolen died on an historic day: the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. AP reported that he died in a hospital in Oswiecim, the southern Polish…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— European and American perfidy in dealing with Iran’s nuclear weapons program apparently has no end. This week we were subject to banner headlines announcing that the EU has decided to place an oil embargo on Iran. It was only when we got past the bombast that we discovered that the embargo…
DetailsBY RICHARD BOOKER, PART 4 of MYTHOMANIACS— Another myth is that that Jews who lived under Muslim Arab rule before the birth of Israel had harmonious relations with the Arabs and were treated with dignity and tolerance. The implication is that if Israel would submit to Arab rule, the fighting would stop and Muslims, Jews,…
DetailsThink on this! “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to…
DetailsA Toronto couple, married for more than 60 years, appeared on Live! With Regis and Kelly last year as one of the “World’s Greatest Love Stories.” Nancy and Howard Kleinberg, Holocaust survivors who lived through a Nazi death camp and immigrated to Toronto in 1947, were featured on Regis and Kelly as part of an…
DetailsBY RICHARD RABKIN, MISHPACHA— They could have shut their eyes and minded their own business, as so many people did in 1940s Poland. But when a three-year-old Jewish boy landed on their doorstep, so to speak, the Bulik family — bakers by profession — opened their hearts and gave the child a home. Michael Bulik,…
DetailsBY EVELYN GORDON, COMMENTARY— The run-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday has produced some excellent articles drawing parallels between the Holocaust and the threat posed by an Iranian nuclear bomb. But there’s another parallel that’s equally disturbing: the world’s indifference to the relentless incitement to genocide of both Hitler and Iranian President Mahmoud…
DetailsBY MICHAEL FREUND— Tomorrow marks the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by the 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army in the waning days of World War II. That epic event provided the world with a glimpse into the potential darkness of the human soul, as stunned Soviet soldiers came…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 10:1-13:16, “Bo” (Go …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 46:13-28 New Testament: I Corinthians 11:20-34 Gospel: Luke 22:7-30 “Ha Yom Shezerit” (Day of Unleavened Bread)
DetailsBY REZA KAHLILI, WND— Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has held several secret meetings with his economic and military advisers in recent days to prepare for the possibility of war with the United States. Sources report the preparations are to include the execution of those Iranians who oppose the regime. Khamenei has been heard…
DetailsBY MALCOLM LOWE, STONEGATE— For over two decades, parts of the Christian world have been bemused by the writings of self-styled “Palestinian Christian theologians.” Since their brightest lights are Protestant pastors, they are minor figures among the overwhelmingly Orthodox and Catholic faithful of the Holy Land. But they are strangely popular in Liberal Protestant circles…
DetailsBY AVIEL SCHNEIDER, ISRAEL TODAY— From March 5-9 Bethlehem Bible College will be hosting its second “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference. While Israelis are celebrating their ancient divine delivery during the Purim holiday, some 30 Christian leaders will be gathering in Bethlehem to raise the banner of “Palestinian Liberation Theology” as the only true hope…
DetailsBY YNETNEWS— The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, and the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Chief, Filippo Grandi, signed a $72 million financing agreement towards the Agency’s General Fund. Speaking at a signing ceremony at UNRWA’s Vocational Training Centre in Gaza City, Grandi expressed gratitude to…
DetailsHoly Lord, I have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and unbelief, of failure to find Your mind in Your Word, of neglect to seek You in my daily life. My transgressions and short-comings present me with a list of accusations, but I ask You that they will not stand against me,…
DetailsWho is Jesus – and what does His life, death, and resurrection mean to me? Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” —John 14:6 Many go through life unfulfilled, unfocused, searching, a blank canvas waiting for a picture of purpose to…
DetailsBy PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— There is in everyone a natural desire for knowledge, but what good is knowledge without the fear of God? A lowly peasant who serves God is better off than a brilliant, proud philosopher who studies the stars but doesn’t know the One…
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